"Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westerm...@dbi-services.com> writes: >> Yeah, but populating it would not (unless many of the columns were >> NULL).
> Ok, but then should the documentation be more precise? It seems a bit odd to
> let users create such a table without at least a warning.
Given the impact of NULLs, and the fact that usually tables have some
variable-width columns, I doubt that a creation-time warning could be
accurate enough to be useful.
regards, tom lane
